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Telangana authorities is undertaking programs to summation the per capita income of farmers successful the State to ₹12,53,733 per annum by 2047. It is readying to grow effect cultivation from the existent 4.5 lakh acres to 12 lakh acres, rootlike cultivation to 10 lakh acres, and spice harvest cultivation to 6 lakh acres, said K. Surendra Mohan, Secretary, Telangana State Agriculture and Cooperation Department.
During a sojourn to Sri Konda Laxman Telangana Horticultural University, headquartered successful Mulugu, Siddipet territory connected Thursday (December 25, 2025), helium spoke astir mounting up facilities to augment farming, prime up agri produce, storage, cleaning and different facilities.
K. Surendra Mohan, Secretary, Telangana State Agriculture and Cooperation Department, Vice-Chancellor of the Sri Konda Laxman Telangana Horticultural University, Danda Raji Reddy astatine the University headquartered successful Mulugu, Siddipet on Thursday (December 25, 2025) | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT
To beforehand rootlike cultivation, the authorities volition found postulation centers to procure vegetables straight from farmers, and besides summation selling infrastructure. It is besides preparing to supply facilities with a acold concatenation capableness of 50 lakh tonnes and an further warehousing capableness of 50 lakh metric tonnes. Mr. Surendra said that they are preparing to acceptable up vapor vigor attraction and irradiation attraction centers adjacent the planetary airdrome to summation the export of mangoes and different fruits chiefly cultivated successful the State.
Citing summation successful consumption, the Agriculture Secretary said that determination is simply a request to summation cultivation country of millets by 10 lakh acres and pulses by different 7 lakh acres. And, the people for oil thenar cultivation area is to summation it from the existent 2.7 lakh acres to 12 lakh acres by 2047, and besides to execute a five-fold summation successful mulberry accumulation and an eight-fold summation successful tussar silk accumulation successful the sericulture sector.
The authorities is acceptable to enactment the plans by expanding micro-irrigation to 40 lakh acres and expanding workplace powerfulness capableness to 9 kilowatts per hectare.
Vice-Chancellor of the Horticultural University, Danda Raji Reddy, said that establishing a section marketplace each 50 kilometers would summation the country nether rootlike cultivation. He explained the plans to extensively beforehand grafted rootlike plants and trellis-based rootlike cultivation.
The programme was attended by TS Oil Fed Officer connected Special Duty Kiran Kumar; University Consultant K. Veeranjaneyulu; Technical Advisor Sunandini; Head of the Vegetable Research Station, D. Anita Kumari; Professor Pidiga Saidiah; Horticulture Department Joint Director, Sarojini; Siddipet District Horticulture Officer Suvarna; scientists, and students.
